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According to the IPCC, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere is directly linked to the average global temperature on Earth, and the concentration has been rising steadily. The most abundant greenhouse gas, accounting for about two-thirds of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, is largely the product of burning fossil fuels.
There is alarming evidence that important tipping points, leading to irreversible changes in major ecosystems and the planetary climate system, may already have been reached or passed. One of the most urgent challenges facing countries across the world today is how to achieve economic prosperity and development while also combating climate change.
The Paris climate change agreement commits nations to limit global temperature rise to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, with countries pledging to cut or curb their greenhouse gas emissions – through a combination of mitigation and adaptation measures – by 2030.
Created a Post in Climate Change
The FT reports on the mixed trend in Belt and Road energy projects - renewables accounted for more than half of energy investments in 2020 but coal investments also up.
Should Governments Subsidize Hydrogen?
Solving the Injustices Caused by Climate Change
Resilience in Action: What we learned from our first 5 years supporting adaptation governance
Created a Post in Climate Change, Forestry, Natural Capital
How feeding squirrels fluorescent hazelnut paste can reduce global warming and improve biodiversity
Created a Post in Climate Change, Energy, Industry and Entrepreneurship
As cleaner energy alternatives continue to replace fossil fuels, a large-scale federal #JustTransition policy with funding for retraining and relocation is needed in the United States. Rehabilitating abandoned coal mines, which requires a sizable and well-trained workforce, can be a key component.
Created a Post in Climate Change, Sustainable Finance
The World Bank's Climate Change Resilience Rating System is being piloted in more than 20 World Bank projects across all regions. This system is more than just an attempt to create a monitoring system and a metric but to develop a guidance on how to design good projects particularly relevant to climate financing. How will it change the way projects are designed and implemented?
This new paper from WRI identifies how institutions, organizations and communities can accelerate support for locally-led climate adaptation
Created a Post in Blue Economy, Climate Change, Natural Capital
Rewatching this two years later, with a renewed optimism
The objectives of climate actions strongly overlap with SDGs (and vice versa). A research project at SEI explored the implication of joint implementation of these two agendas in 6 countries and showed that countries are more likely to meet these goals if they enhance policy coherence between the two agendas.
This paper presents a national perspective on the key barriers and governance challenges to policy coherence.